Starling murmuration season - in pictures

Starling murmuration season - in pictures

From October to March thousands of starlings flock together to perform extraordinary displays across the UK. This gallery captures the murmurations of starlings as they swirl in the sky above reed beds where they roost at night. Some of the pictures were sent to us by our readers via GuardianWitness and via Guardian Environment desk's Flickr group Green Shoots

Tue 21 Jan 2014 09.28 EST
Last modified on Wed 14 Feb 2018 13.23 EST

Middleton Moor, Derbyshire on 20 January 2014. Photograph: Christopher Thomond for The Guardian

Rigg, near Gretna, in the Scottish Borders on November 25, 2013. (Note: the weight of the resting birds on power lines caused some localised power outages in the village.) Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA